Modules Dont Load At Startup

[Thomas H. George,,,]

It is certainly elementary but it baffles me. Although I have compiled my kernel with module support set to load modules as needed and run make modules and make modules_install, certain modules never loaded when needed. For example, the sound card module never loaded at startup so I always ended up building it into the kernel. Now I have a Geforce4 video card and must run insmod NVdriver each time after I boot up as xdm fails until I have done this.

I know I have overlooked something basic, but what? My O'Reilly Debian book discusses config.modules which has been replaced by modules.config which starts with a warning I am not to edit it. Modules-HOWTO has a lot of interesting information but, unless I missed it, no instructions regarding on requiring modules to load during bootup.

The Linux kernel is so compact there is no reason not to load everything I need at bootup so the real advantage of the module concept must be to allow third parties to add functions to the kernel - e.g. the NVdriver.

Would someone please point out what I have been too blind to see.

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